According to indeed.com, the average RN salary in CA, in October 2014, was $71,000. As per the BLS, the mean annual and hourly wages, in May 2013, were $96,980 and $46.62, respectively. Since the cost of living is quite high, the average registered nurse salary in California is 7% higher than the national average.
Full Definition of POVERTY. 1. a: the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions b: renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property. 2. : scarcity, dearth.
1 Although poverty is a phenomenon as old as human history, its significance has changed over time. Under traditional (i.e., nonindustrialized) modes of economic production, widespread poverty had been accepted as inevitable.